Suspender-end.



No. 648.257. Patented Apr. 24, I900. J. HEYMAN.

SUSPENDER END.

(Application filed Dec. 16, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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SUS'PENDER-END.

srncrrrdnrron forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,257, dated April24, 1900. Application filed December 16, 1899. Serial No. 740,535. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB HEYMAN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedSuspender-End, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to front suspenderends havin gbutton-pieces forconnecting with trousers and terminal drawers-supporting tongues.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improvedsuspender-end having its strap reinforced at the inside to readilywithstand the strain exerted by the button-piece on the strap, thelatter, its reinforcing-strip, and the drawers-supporting tongue beingall made of a single piece of leather or like material to cheapen thecost of'the manufacture of the Suspender-end and to render the latterexceedingly durable.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out inthe claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings,

forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 isa transverse section of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the blank for the reinforced strap and the tongue, and Fig.4 is a perspective'view of a modified form of the strap in an openposition.

The improved suspender-end is provided with a strap A, made of leatheror other suitable material and doubled up to form a loop, the upperportion of which is adapted to engage a loop B on the lower end of theshoulder-strap O of the suspender. The strap A when doubled up forms aback A, having an integral overhanging top piece A for engagement withthe loop B, as described, said strap having its front A extendingasufticient distance upward to pass in front of the overhanging portionA and the upper end of the front A terminates in a reinforcing-strip Awhich extends on the inside of the strap-loop along the front A and thebottom of the strap-loop, and then extends upward a distance on the backA and terminates in a tongue A which passes through a slot A in the backA and hangs downward from the strap, as is plainly indicated in thedrawings, between the ends of the button-piece, the middle portion ofwhich rests on the rein= forcing-strip A as is plainly indicated inFigs. 1 and 2. The upperend of the front A and the overhanging portion Aare adapted to be connected with each other by a fastening device E,preferably having two members' namely, a socket E and a button E 0fwhich the button connects with the overhanging portion A below the looppart for the loop B. The socket E binds upon the front A the upper endof the reinforcing-strip A, so that the reinforcing-strip and the frontare securely held together.

Now by the arrangement described the loop of the strap-A can be readilyopened or closed by separating or closing the members EE of thefastening device E to insert or remove or look the button-piece D inplace when the latter is attached to the buttons of the trousers.

On the lower end of the tongue A is secured a suitable fastening deviceFof any approved construction for connecting the tongue with the drawers,so that the tongue forms a support for the drawers.

As shown in Fig. 4, the tongue A is made in two parts, extending throughseparate slots A in the back A of the strap A, and the lower ends ofsaid separate strap parts are placed one in front of the other andconnected with the fastening device F. In either of the twoconstructions, however, the strap proper,the reinforcing-strip A ,andthe tongue A are made from a single piece of material, so that itrequires but comparatively little labor to form the suspender-end withthe strap reinforced, as described, at its essential point and at thesame time form a terminal drawerssupporting tongue.

It is understood that when the device is used the strain of thebutton-pieces D on the trousers is principally exerted on the reinforcedportion of the suspender-strap A, and consequently there is no danger ofthe strap breaking under a heavy strain or becoming otherwisedisarranged.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Pat-ent- A suspender-end, provided with a strap whoseone end is adapted tov be secured to a loop on the shoulder-strap of thesuspender and provided with a slot near said end, the said strap beingbent upwardly at an intermediate portion toward the end of the strapwhereby to form a tab-retaining loop with such end and then doubled uponitself to form a reinforcing-strip, the said reinforcing-strip extendingdownwardly along the inner face

